Re: Changing my ISP

[Scott Duensing <scott@jaegertech.com>]

That's cool.  What kind of up-speed do they have?  They really don't
filter?  And you can run servers off it without being sneaky?  If so,
I may be ordering myself!

Scott


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
> I've been bugging AT&T about offering serious data service to my home
> since 1992 (!!). Lately I've never missed an opportunity to rag on AT&T
> reps about unbundling their U-verse Internet service from their VoIP and
> TV combos. I'm very happy with my DirecTV and POTS services, and didn't
> want to trade them away just to get fast Internet service. AT&T must
> have been listening because their U-verse Internet is now available
> unbundled from their other services.
>
> Background: For reasons not really their fault, the quality of service
> from my present ISP has deteriorated badly over the past couple of
> years. As I write this my connectivity is going up and down like a short
> wave radio voice channel at sunrise/sunset because the "final mile" to
> my house is, well, radio. This has concerned me greatly because my home
> is 23,500 cable feet from the Edgemont (235-xxxx) central office. That
> means DSL was impossible: Not no way. Not no how.
>
> My ISP used to charge $120/mo for 1Mbps service with one static IP
> address. Last year, under competitive pressure from Charter, they
> lowered that to $49.99. They provide a pure pipe without blocking any
> ports or services. I've been free to use BitTorrent whenever I wanted,
> to stand up my own e-mail system, and connect to my home server using
> SSH, OpenVPN, or VNC from anywhere in the country -- all with no monthly
> limits.
>
> If all goes according to plan on Friday, my new U-verse Internet service
> will be 12Mbps, *five* static IP addresses, *no* port/service filtering
> or blocking, and no monthly caps -- all for for $60/mo. AT&T's local
> installation supervisor came by the house this afternoon and we did a
> pre-installation survey. He wants to bury the line from the back yard
> pole to a new NID box on the side of my garage. After that awful ice
> storm in December 2006, burying the new line suits me just fine.
>
> For a true geek the best part is an optional setting for their
> terminating router, setting it to "DMZ" pass-thru mode. My internal
> WRT-54GS router will handle all firewall tasks. No Big Brother messing
> with me.
>
> I told Steve Pritchard "I have an almost uncontrollable aversion to
> anything named AT&T. I may have to get over that." Steve told me to
> think "Ameritech". :-)
>
> --Doc Savage
>  Fairview Heights, IL
>
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